Tempted to try Ozempic or Wegovy? These weight-loss wonder drugs are riding a tidal wave of popularity, helped no doubt by celebrity endorsements, with seemingly everyone from Sharon Osbourne to Elon Musk reportedly benefiting from the weekly jabs.
But both may soon seem old hat, with new drugs around the corner that promise greater weight loss, come in more convenient forms or actually burn off fat while we go about our daily business without even noticing the medications at work
DENVER — A weight-loss drug used to treat obesity and diabetes has shown promise to treat another disorder: opioid addiction.
Early results from a small clinical trial, presented February 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, suggest that a close relative of the weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic significantly lessened cravings for opioids in people with opioid use disorder.
“For them to have any time when they might be free of that craving
Oprah Winfrey was grinning ear to ear on Thursday night when she was spotted out highlighting her newly svelte figure outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.
The 69-year-old talk show host and actress looked effortlessly elegant in a plunging pale lavender suit that highlighted her hourglass figure and recent 40lb weight loss.
The appearance comes a day after Oprah finally confirmed using a weight-loss drug to shed the weight.
The Color Purple star, who told People she
Online scammers are using platforms such as TikTok to sell dangerous fake weight-loss drugs to desperate diabetes patients hit by a medication shortage, as England’s prescription watchdog faces further pressure to approve a breakthrough jab.
In trials, a third of type 2 diabetics on the new drug, tirzepatide, shed more than 20 per cent of their body weight after just over a year and saw their blood sugars brought in check. The average person with obesity weighing 16.5 st (105
A class of powerful drugs can dramatically change people’s body weight. But one of the drugs’ most alluring jobs may happen in a spot that’s harder to see: the brain.
Some people taking drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic, two brand names for the drug semaglutide, have reported surprising — and welcome — side effects: Their constant thoughts about food quiet; their desire for alcohol diminishes; their need for nicotine dissipates.
These reports point to the possibility that these drugs,
Patients have revealed the dark side of weight-loss drugs that are flying off shelves and making headlines for their fat-shedding abilities.
DailyMail.com spoke to five patients aged from their 30s to their 70s in the US, Canada, and UK who say Ozempic and similar medications ‘broke’ them mentally and physically.
They include a mother who went into kidney failure on her daughter’s birthday and a man whose sister begged him not to attempt suicide for the third time after Ozempic
That’s the median weight loss experienced by people who take Wegovy, a drug from Novo Nordisk.
The new drugs are the first truly effective obesity medicines. They act by stemming people’s appetites and cravings for food. Many patients started by taking Ozempic, a diabetes drug also by Novo Nordisk that led to weight loss as a side effect. But many more patients are asking for Wegovy, which is approved for obesity. Mounjaro,
A Florida woman who has been taking a weight-loss injection for nearly a decade is urging Americans to stop taking these drugs solely for weight loss.
Danielle Payton, 33, is thought to be one of the longest-serving patients on a GLP-1 agonist, which was first approved in 2010.
These drugs are at the center of concerns about long-term safety risks, already being linked to severe vomiting and suicidal thoughts.
Ms Payton – a publicist – began taking the once-daily injection
The drug behemoths behind blockbuster obesity medications Mounjro and Ozempic have been sued over claims that they caused stomach paralysis.
Personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan has taken the case on behalf of a 44-year-old Louisiana woman with diabetes who lost weight while taking the drugs, only to suffer later from severe stomach paralysis marked by such violent vomiting that she has lost some teeth and required multiple trips to the hospital.
The suit against Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk,
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Das verschreibungspflichtige Medikament Ozempic (Semaglutid) wurde zur Behandlung von Diabetes und Fettleibigkeit entwickelt. Aber es wurde kürzlich als Mittel zur Gewichtsabnahme angenommen, und es wird gemunkelt, dass viele Prominente es verwenden, um Pfunde zu verlieren. Der angestellte Autor Jia Tolentino fragt sich, ob die Droge die Uhr zurückdrehen wird zu dem
